Bobby thinks as long as he keeps hitting the snooze button we’ll ignore the alarms and keep our eyes shut. He’s wrong.In response to city-wide anger over Cllr Robert Cairns’ vocal support of controversial plans to combat knife crime in Glasgow’s East End by enforcing a district-wide curfew, we invite all true Better World Pioneers to take up the pen with us and attend at least one #neednothing letter writing party ahead of the City Council vote scheduled for May 29th.We don’t need curfews. We don’t need Bobby. We #neednothing.

#sleeptightbobbycairns was an interactive satire on social media driven activism that took the form of a fictional workshop run by a young activist fast running out of steam. At this intimate “letter-writing party”, audience members were asked to step inside the world of #neednothing, a fictional campaign group that lampoons the darker trends in contemporary activism. Interested parties could also visit #neednothing online to find out more about the organisation and interact with the satire through social media.

Created for the Tron Theatre‘s Mayfesto festival by director Rob Jones and writer Michael O’Neill in collaboration with devisor and performer Millie Turner, #sleeptightbobbycairns tapped into a generation’s unease with the traditional mechanisms of politics, and explored the personal impact of a life spent keeping active with the activists. The show was developed from #neednothing, which was first presented as part of Arches Live 2012. In developing the show, we continued to refine our innovative model of blending devised and text-based methods to create bold, exuberant shows that involve their audiences in unconventional ways.